Paid leave, jobless claims, plummeting crime, and more.
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| Health Care The Affordable Care Act's Little-Noticed Success: Cutting the Uninsured Rate Kaiser Family Foundation // Drew Altman Without knowledge of the facts people are more susceptible to spin and misrepresentation. The Affordable Care Act has covered about 20 million previously uninsured Americans but has little chance of improved standing with the public unless its most important achievement is better known. Read full article... |
| Health Care The Affordable Care Act is covering people, holding down costs and not killing jobs Jared Bernstein // The Washington Post Repealing the ACA would be serious policy malpractice. A handful of useful facts. Read full article... |
| The Economy Jobless Claims at 42-Year Low as U.S. Employers Shun Firings Bloomberg // Patricia Laya Filings for U.S. unemployment benefits were at a four-decade low over the past two weeks as sales prospects encouraged employers to maintain headcounts. Read full article... |
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| Economic Opportunity A Pediatrician's View Of Paid Parental Leave NPR // All Things Considered As part of All Things Considered's series Stretched: Working Parents' Juggling Act, NPR talked with Dr. Benard Dreyer, a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at the New York University School of Medicine and president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, to get a better sense of what the scientific evidence says about the health benefits of paid family leave. Read full article... |
| Immigration A record number of U.S. billionaires are immigrants The Washington Post // Thomas Heath According to a report on immigration and entrepreneurship by the Kauffman Foundation, "there is a little debate about the economic contributions of immigrant entrepreneurs." The Kauffman report said "immigrants are twice as likely to become entrepreneurs as native-born Americans." Read full article... |
| Climate Change Climate change has been making western forest fires worse for decades, study says The Washington Post // Chelsea Harvey Many scientists have predicted that climate change could cause wildfires to increase in the future. And a new study, just out on Monday, demonstrates just how much it's already been making them worse. Read full article... |
| In Other News Americans don't know crime has plummeted. In fact, they think it's gone up. Vox // German Lopez We polled Americans about their views on crime. They couldn't be more wrong. Read full article... |
| In Other News WATCH: An Undefeated Conversation with President Obama: Sports, Race and Achievement The Undefeated President Barack Obama visited the campus of North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro for the first time Tuesday to participate in a forum on the historically black college experience, the mentorship program he founded called My Brother's Keeper, and what it means to be undefeated in the face of life's obstacles. Read full article... |
| In Other News Michelle Obama: This issue is personal for me CNN // Michelle Obama Unlike so many girls around the world, we have a voice. That's why, particularly on this year's International Day of the Girl, I ask that you use yours to help these girls get the education they deserve. They're counting on us, and I have no intention of letting them down. Read full article... |
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